knee bend squat squatting | exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent, strengthens the leg muscles |
bend curve | curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) |
bend bend dexter | diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left |
blind curve blind bend | a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving |
broom closet | a small room for storing brooms and other cleaning equipment |
carrick bend | a knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsers |
china cabinet china closet | a cabinet (usually with glass doors) for storing and displaying china |
closet | a small private room for study or prayer |
closet auger | a snake used to unblock toilets |
clothes closet clothespress | a closet where clothes are stored |
coat closet | a closet for storing outerwear |
cupboard closet | a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space |
fisherman's bend | a knot for tying a line to a spar or ring |
hairpin bend | a U-shaped bend in a road |
hawser bend | a knot uniting the ends of two lines |
sheet bend becket bend weaver's knot weaver's hitch | a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye) |
supply closet | a closet for storing supplies |
wardrobe closet press | a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes, has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes |
water closet closet W.C. loo | a toilet in Britain |
bar sinister bend sinister | a mark of bastardy, lines from top right to bottom left |
closet drama | drama more suitable for reading that for performing |
skeleton skeleton in the closet skeleton in the cupboard | a scandal that is kept secret, there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet |
bending bend | movement that causes the formation of a curve |
Big Bend | a triangular area in southwestern Texas on the Mexican border, formed by a bend in the Rio Grande |
Big Bend National Park | a large national park in Texas featuring mountains and desert and canyons and wildlife |
South Bend | a city in northern Indiana |
Bend | a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range |
closet queen | a negative term for a homosexual man who chooses not to reveal his sexual orientation |
bend crook twist turn | a circular segment of a curve, a bend in the road, a crook in the path |
fold crease plication flexure crimp bend | an angular or rounded shape made by folding, a fold in the napkin, a crease in his trousers, a plication on her blouse, a flexure of the colon, a bend of his elbow |
fall over backwards bend over backwards | try very hard to please someone, She falls over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law |
come out of the closet out come out | to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality, This actor outed last year |
flex bend deform twist turn b | cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form, bend the rod, twist the dough into a braid, the strong man could turn an iron bar |
flex bend | bend a joint, flex your wrists, bend your knees |
closet | confine to a small space, as for intensive work |
bend | change direction, The road bends |
deflect bend turn away | turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest |
bend flex | form a curve, The stick does not bend |
crouch stoop bend bow | bend one's back forward from the waist on down, he crouched down, She bowed before the Queen, The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse |
s balmy barmy bats batty bonkers buggy cracked crackers daft dotty fruity haywire kooky kookie loco loony loopy nuts nutty round the bend around the bend wacky whacky d | informal or slang terms for mentally irregular, it used to drive my husband balmy |